Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 269 288
Rank change year-on-year -21 +19 -74
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 479 505 822
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.65% 1.16% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.23% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 200 308 490
10th Percentile £42,804 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,175 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,373 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% +2.77% -6.90%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £126,625 £96,461 £111,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +8.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 12 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -28 431 £75,000 +8.40% 195
London +59 245 £93,750 +25.00% 105
Work from Home +17 190 £75,000 +15.38% 114
UK excluding London -86 184 £63,076 -2.96% 113
North of England -32 52 £75,000 -1.64% 28
South East -58 46 £58,750 -9.62% 37
Midlands -46 35 £63,076 -2.96% 16
North West -13 32 £80,000 +3.23% 19
West Midlands -8 26 £60,288 -7.25% 9
East of England +15 21 £60,100 -12.58% 11
Yorkshire -36 18 £68,510 +110.80% 6
South West -52 17 £62,500 - 11
Northern Ireland -15 11 £75,000 +26.20% 1
East Midlands -51 9 £80,000 +33.33% 7
Wales -9 4 £61,001 +2.64% 3
Scotland -22 4 £55,000 +5.33% 10
North East -22 2 £63,076 -23.54% 3

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.55%) Confluence
2 12 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.42%) CICS
5 2 (0.42%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Drupal
Applications
1 19 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (0.63%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.71%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.42%) Workfront
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Shopify
5 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 61 (12.73%) SaaS
2 55 (11.48%) AWS
3 47 (9.81%) Azure
4 23 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.97%) Pulumi
6 15 (3.13%) GCP
7 14 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (2.92%) GitHub
8 10 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (1.88%) H2O.ai
9 9 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.88%) OneDrive
9 9 (1.88%) OpenShift
9 9 (1.88%) PaaS
10 5 (1.04%) Asana
10 5 (1.04%) Snowflake
11 4 (0.84%) Collibra
11 4 (0.84%) Figma
11 4 (0.84%) Google Analytics
11 4 (0.84%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.22%) Broadband
2 10 (2.09%) HTTP
3 9 (1.88%) SD-WAN
4 8 (1.67%) WAN
5 6 (1.25%) LAN
5 6 (1.25%) RTP
6 5 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.84%) Wireless
8 3 (0.63%) Multicast
9 2 (0.42%) 5G
9 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.42%) Network Security
9 2 (0.42%) VPN
10 1 (0.21%) ATM
10 1 (0.21%) Bluetooth
10 1 (0.21%) Firewall
10 1 (0.21%) Intranet
10 1 (0.21%) MPLS
10 1 (0.21%) Value-Added Service
10 1 (0.21%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.59%) Power BI
2 21 (4.38%) NoSQL
2 21 (4.38%) Relational Database
3 20 (4.18%) RDBMS
4 18 (3.76%) Metadata
5 10 (2.09%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.46%) Tableau
7 6 (1.25%) SAP BW
7 6 (1.25%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.63%) Big Data
9 3 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.63%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.42%) DB2
11 1 (0.21%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (5.64%) JIRA
2 19 (3.97%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.84%) ERwin
4 3 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 187 (39.04%) Finance
2 176 (36.74%) Social Skills
3 109 (22.76%) Marketing
4 85 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (12.11%) Banking
6 54 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 46 (9.60%) Retail
8 39 (8.14%) Law
9 38 (7.93%) Legal
10 35 (7.31%) Influencing Skills
11 32 (6.68%) Financial Institution
11 32 (6.68%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (4.59%) Public Sector
13 21 (4.38%) Back Office
13 21 (4.38%) Manufacturing
14 18 (3.76%) Digital Economy
15 17 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
16 11 (2.30%) Automotive
17 10 (2.09%) Electronics
18 9 (1.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (28.81%) Product Manager
2 70 (14.61%) Lead
3 61 (12.73%) Senior
4 36 (7.52%) Senior Manager
5 30 (6.26%) Senior Product Manager
6 28 (5.85%) Product Owner
7 19 (3.97%) Product Lead
8 18 (3.76%) Digital Product Manager
9 17 (3.55%) Product Management Director
10 16 (3.34%) Change Manager
11 15 (3.13%) Developer
12 12 (2.51%) Consultant
12 12 (2.51%) Data Manager
13 11 (2.30%) Development Engineer
13 11 (2.30%) Security Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Development Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Software Development Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (2.09%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
2 12 (2.51%) REST
3 9 (1.88%) Keras
3 9 (1.88%) PyTorch
3 9 (1.88%) TensorFlow
3 9 (1.88%) YAML
4 5 (1.04%) .NET
5 3 (0.63%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.42%) CSS
6 2 (0.42%) HTML
6 2 (0.42%) Next.js
7 1 (0.21%) EDI
7 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.21%) Flask
7 1 (0.21%) PySpark
7 1 (0.21%) RESTful
7 1 (0.21%) SOAP
7 1 (0.21%) Spring
7 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 91 (19.00%) Product Ownership
2 39 (8.14%) Self-Motivation
3 38 (7.93%) Onboarding
4 28 (5.85%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.97%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.30%) Social Media
8 10 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.46%) Data Fabric
11 7 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.25%) IoT
12 6 (1.25%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (0.84%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.59%) Linux
2 19 (3.97%) Unix
3 5 (1.04%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) zOS
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (52.61%) Roadmaps
2 203 (42.38%) Agile
3 134 (27.97%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (22.55%) Product Strategy
5 105 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 103 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
8 91 (19.00%) AI
8 91 (19.00%) Mentoring
9 78 (16.28%) Analytics
10 73 (15.24%) Product Vision
11 68 (14.20%) User Experience
12 67 (13.99%) Information Security
13 61 (12.73%) Coaching
14 60 (12.53%) Business Development
14 60 (12.53%) Decision-Making
14 60 (12.53%) Project Management
15 49 (10.23%) User Stories
15 49 (10.23%) Value Proposition
16 48 (10.02%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.98%) Python
2 32 (6.68%) Java
3 28 (5.85%) SQL
4 23 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.18%) Go
6 19 (3.97%) Bash
7 9 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.84%) C#
9 2 (0.42%) Bicep
9 2 (0.42%) COBOL
9 2 (0.42%) JCL
9 2 (0.42%) PHP
9 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.21%) R
10 1 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 91 (19.00%) Degree
2 39 (8.14%) Master's Degree
3 30 (6.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.80%) Security Cleared
5 20 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.92%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.46%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.46%) PMP
8 6 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.25%) MBA
9 4 (0.84%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.63%) CSPO
10 3 (0.63%) HNC
11 2 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.42%) CBAP
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) IIBA
12 1 (0.21%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.21%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.59%) QA
2 15 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.09%) NCSC
6 9 (1.88%) NIST
7 6 (1.25%) GDPR
8 5 (1.04%) IFRS
8 5 (1.04%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.04%) PMO
8 5 (1.04%) SLA
9 2 (0.42%) COREP
9 2 (0.42%) FINREP
9 2 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.42%) SEPA
10 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.21%) GMP
10 1 (0.21%) GRC
10 1 (0.21%) PSD2
System Software
1 21 (4.38%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) RACF
3 1 (0.21%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 23 (4.80%) Terraform
2 21 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.97%) Ansible
3 19 (3.97%) Argo
3 19 (3.97%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.97%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 48 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.31%) Google
3 13 (2.71%) Salesforce
4 10 (2.09%) Adobe
5 9 (1.88%) Databricks
5 9 (1.88%) Dell
5 9 (1.88%) NVIDIA
6 8 (1.67%) Oracle
6 8 (1.67%) SAP
7 7 (1.46%) Foundry
8 4 (0.84%) Sage
8 4 (0.84%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.84%) YouTube
9 3 (0.63%) Apple
9 3 (0.63%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.63%) CQG
9 3 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.63%) ION Trading
9 3 (0.63%) Reuters
9 3 (0.63%) Tenable